Thuringia: Attempted robbery on a supermarket: perpetrators fled

Erfurt (dpa/th) - An unknown person threatened a cashier during an attempted robbery of a supermarket in Erfurt. The perpetrator threatened the woman on Tuesday evening with an object that looked like a pistol and demanded the money from the cash register, the police said early Wednesday morning. Whether it was actually a real weapon has not yet been conclusively clarified. However, the woman refused to hand over the cash and called the store manager. The man then fled without taking anything.